The Princess Regent of Brazil.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 839, 30 March 1888, Page 4

The Princess Regent of Brazil.

During the absence of the Emperor nnd Empress of Brazil in Europe the regency is entrusted to the Princess Imperial Isabella Christina, who has assumed the title of Princess Regent. She is a very pleasing and popular lady, gracious in demeanor, and yet exceedingly dignified, not positively handsome, and yet very kindly and pleasant in expression. Her age is now forty-one. She married at the age of eighteen, which may seem rather early to our ideas, but it is by no means so in Brazil, and her husband was Louis Gaston of Orleans, Count d’Eu, who ia a Marshal of the Brazilian Empire. The union was not blessed with children until eleven years after its consummation, and therefore the little Prince Imperial de Grao Paro, who ia the heir to the Brazilian Empire, is only just twelve years old. The Princess is not, as is commonly supposed, the only child of the Emperor Peter II and the Empress Theresa Christina. She had had a younger sister Leopoldina, born only a year later than herself, who married one

of the numerous dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Louis Augustus was his name), and died within eight jjpars of her marriage day, leaving, however, four sons to mitigate her husband’s grief. Failing, therefore, the three tiny Princes of the Princess Imperial’s own family, the crown of Brazil would be still well provided with heirs. Oddly enough, however, the yonngest son of Princess Leopoldina, the younger sister, is not less than five years older than the eldest son of the Princess Isabella Christina, the eldest sister. —London Life.